Vocational education and training (VET) providers have faced many of the same challenges as Australian universities, with COVID-19 international border closures and ‘stay at home’ orders responsible for plunging student numbers. Data provided by the National Centre for Vocational Education and ...

The peak body representing independent providers in the higher education, vocational education, training and skills sector, the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), has welcomed the government’s $4 billion injection amid a massive decline in commencements in the June 2020 ...

New data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows high student satisfaction with the overall quality of their VET training. The latest National Student Outcomes Survey revealed that of the 122,536 VET graduates who responded, 88.1 per ...

National apprentice and trainee commencements (trade and non-trade) increased to 55,680 in the March 2019 quarter, up 2.2 per cent on the same period last year. Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the latest report, Apprentices and trainees ...

You don't necessarily expect to hear Nietzsche quoted at a vocational education and training conference, but No Frills surprised attendees. Held in Sydney on 15–17 August, the NCVER's annual 'do was given a philosophical bent by keynote speaker Dr Lene ...

An economic downturn has been blamed for a recent decline in the number of Australians commencing trade and non-trade apprenticeships and traineeships. Seasonally adjusted data that the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) released last week indicates that commencement numbers ...

Evidence-based policy implies a deep understanding of the world, which in turn requires data – lots of data. In education and training we need detailed information on young people; their family and community background, physical health, psycho-social development, as well ...

While vocational education and training (VET) graduates are finding work after they finish their training, employment has not returned to pre-economic downturn levels. New data released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows that 77.4 per cent ...

Recent research by the National Centre for Vocational and Educational Research (NCVER) on student intentions has exposed as largely a myth the long held belief, by some  in VET, that enrolling students are often only interested in acquiring the skills ...

They are hailing Steve Jobs as the 20th century Edison. Some argue there can be no comparison between electricity and the i-device; others that Jobs’s conversion of the computer into an individual, domestic device has been a revolution, write Francesca Beddie, ...